Housing Expert Forum: Shared Equity Housing Models
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QUESTION: How have shared equity housing models created positive impacts on the supply of affordable housing?
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Shared Equity Homeownership is a Stepping Stone
By Emily Higgins
Shared equity homeownership provides sustainable and affordable housing that really works for families of modest means, while also delivering a dramatic return on a relatively small public investment. This model creates a stock of permanently affordable, owner-occupied homes that balance private wealth-building with community benefits.
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Positive Impacts on the Supply of Affordable Housing
By Robert Burns
Shared equity housing models have created positive impacts on the supply of affordable housing, especially for low-income homebuyers. One of the positive impacts includes a decreased risk of foreclosure rates. There is solid evidence supporting the sustainability of homeownership for low-income homebuyers for at least five years.
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Three Positive Impacts
By Michael Bodaken & Andy Slettebak
Shared equity structures leverage three primary positive impacts: The preservation of affordability, the retention of government support and the building of household balance sheets.
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Shared Equity Housing Models Stabilize Neighborhoods
By Peter James Elkowitz
In short, shared equity housing models have created significant positive impacts on the supply of affordable housing while stabilizing neighborhoods. The purchaser shares in the rights and responsibilities of homeownership while recognizing many of the benefits of homeownership.
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Nowhere Near As Much As They Should
By David A. Smith
Like the possibly apocryphal patent clerk who in 1905 quit his job ‘because everything had already been invented,’ over the last three decades we who work in American affordable housing have largely stopped inventing tenure forms, ownership models, occupancy agreements, and physical configurations or layouts – this despite rapid fission of the nuclear family into many more acceptable household types.
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Shared Equity for Rural Homebuyers
By Mike Feinberg
When thinking of shared equity in housing, rural areas may not be the first to come to mind. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Section 502 direct loan product is one model of shared equity housing.
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Shared Equity Models Fill A Vital Place in the Housing Continuum
By Jeff Lubell
Shared equity models fill a vital place in the housing continuum between rental housing and traditional homeownership. Shared equity homeowners receive most of the benefits of traditional homeownership, including: security of tenure (no one can force you out so long as you pay your mortgage on time), ability to modify the home to fit your needs, increased affordability over time (due to fixed mortgage costs) and the ability to build wealth through the forced savings and high leverage of a 30-year fixed rate mortgage.
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Shared Equity Single Family Mortgages Can Preserve the Long Term Affordability of Homes
By Conrad Egan
Shared equity single family mortgages can assist lower income home buyers and preserve the long term affordability of the homes. They can also assist challenged home owners to exit successfully.
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Advancing the Supply of Affordable Housing
By Emily Thaden
Shared equity homeownership models — including community land trusts, inclusionary housing or deed-restricted programs designed for lasting affordability, limited equity housing cooperatives, and shared appreciation loan programs that increase and reinvest second loans on the same properties— arguably advance the supply of affordable housing better than commonly used affordable housing models or programs.
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A Faint Positive Move of the Needle at Most
By Kent Watkins
To the extent that shared equity and other alternate forms of homeownership have been utilized, a faint positive move of the needle at most has occurred. Scale is still lacking and why is an important policy issue. The various shared equity models and others such as rent-to-own have been tried through and around HUD (HOPE VI, FSS, Moving to Work, HOME, 5H) and in States and local programs (ARCH Seattle; community land trusts; deed-restricted houses and condominiums that I have visited in Boulder, CO) for many years, especially in order to help public housing and other low-income populations have this choice.
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Shared Equity Models Create Housing for Hard-Working Americans
By Jonathan T.M. Reckford
In the words of American writer Guy Finley, “Any burden shared isn’t just half the burden — but a burden made lighter for all who agree to carry it; the unthinkable truth is that if everyone agreed to carry just a little more, everyone would carry a little less.” By sharing both the burdens and benefits with homeowners, shared equity models create housing units for hard-working Americans who lack the income, credit or assets to qualify for conventional mortgages.
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Increasing Affordable Housing Opportunities in Rural and Urban Markets
By Marcea Hosay Barringer
With S&P/Case-Shiller reporting home prices up 10.3% from a year ago, Freddie Mac predicting home prices will rise 5% in 2014, and affordable rental units available for only one out of every four families who needs them, it’s clear that there are not enough affordable homes in the US.
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